DRS strives to foster long-term relationships in partnership with clients in order to effectively develop unique security solutions based on specific business and operational requirements. We assist and advise our clients on continuous identification, correction, maintenance and management of mission-critical security and data protection systems. Through this process our clients consistently benefit from our expert knowledge and skills.

DRS have invested considerable resources and capital to ensure that their Managed Security Services Program provides industry leading end-to-end layered security infrastructures to its customers. To this end DRS have made the following ongoing investments:

• 24x7 Threat Alerting Services from multiple vendors and other sources including McAfee Labs, Symantec SARC, CERT, Sophos, TrendMicro, Message Labs, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Attachmate, Secunia, FBI and Microsoft;
• Regular vendor training and certification of support engineers and consultants;
• 24x7 Security Management and Monitoring Centre;
• Dual Internet and ISP feed to the SMC, with UPS and AMF Diesel Generator Power;
• Comprehensive Tier One ISP Disaster Prevention and Recovery Site;
• Local Load-Balanced FTP update servers using PUSH and PULL technology for signatures and patches;

We continuously remain abreast of developments in the IT Security Industry evaluating new technologies for suitability in our clients businesses and recommending feature upgrades to our software suppliers. We also focus on improving our value-added services to clients either by expanding existing services or introducing new ones, in response to market needs and client requirements.

Our staff skills range from programming to in-depth knowledge of large corporate networks, fire-walling and security on all operating system platforms. A pro-active skills-development program ensures that staff receive extensive training so that their knowledge and technical expertise remains current.

DRS technical staffing standards are extremely high in order to ensure that all our engineers are certified and remain current with developing technology. We have a broad base of security skills and strive to ensure that our customers derive maximum value from this pool of expertise.